Word: elected
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...task of his young, listeners, he continued, was to work to elect "good conservative Republicans" in 1962. In Congress the conservative mission was "not to be just obstructionist," but to return fire on the liberal programs with detailed conservative alternatives...
...down at his dictating machine and composed a memo to Kennedy elaborating on some points that had come up during their talk. Heller never met Kennedy again during the campaign, heard nothing from him until a week before Christmas, when, to Heller's astonishment, the President-elect telephoned him from Palm Beach and asked him to join the new Administration as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers...
...Larger Task. President-elect Kennedy's first choice to head up CEA was not Walter Heller but Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Paul Samuelson, most eminent and influential of all U.S. economists. Samuelson declined in the belief that he could have more influence on the outside, recommended Heller for the post. For the other two seats on CEA, Heller chose two university economists much like himself in age and outlook...
...Rolls. Voters will be divided into two rolls, one mostly white, the other mostly black. Each will elect 15 members of the legislature. The remaining 15 will be elected by both rolls under a percentage system that will ensure both the black and white voting blocs the power to veto any candidate. Though London's Daily Mirror called it "too clever by half," the plan's intent was clear: to give swing power to moderates of both races...
Last week, at 80, Dibelius prepared to retire, and at his farewell appearance before the synod of his church, he once again stressed unity: "The most important thing is that we regard ourselves as one." The delegates took heed in deciding the delicate question before them: whom to elect as his successor...